3-7, Museum Street is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1971. A Early Modern Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
3-7, Museum Street
- WRENN ID
- sunken-courtyard-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1971
- Type
- Commercial
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- 3-7, Museum Street, CO1 1TN
- OS grid reference
- TL 998 252
- Coordinates
- 51.88995, 0.90236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 3 to 7 Museum Street are buildings from the 16th or 17th century, featuring timber framing with some 18th-century elements. The exterior is rendered and painted, and the buildings are two storeys high with an attic. They have sash windows with glazing bars. The shop fronts at Nos. 3 and 5 include pilasters and a dentil cornice. The roofs are tiled. These buildings form a group with Nos. 105 to 106 High Street.
Local climate
3-7, Museum Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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